opendaylight/md-sal/sal-distributed-datastore/src/main/java/org/opendaylight/controller/cluster/datastore/entityownership/selectionstrategy/EntityOwnerSelectionStrategy.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2015 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others.  All rights reserved.
   3  *
   4  * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
   5  * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
   6  * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
   7  */
   8
   9 package org.opendaylight.controller.cluster.datastore.entityownership.selectionstrategy;
  10
  11 import java.util.Collection;
  12
  13 /**
  14  * An EntityOwnerSelectionStrategy is to be used by the EntityOwnershipShard to select a new owner from a collection
  15  * of candidates
  16  */
  17 public interface EntityOwnerSelectionStrategy {
  18     /**
  19      *
  20      * @return the time in millis owner selection should be delayed
  21      */
  22     long selectionDelayInMillis();
  23
  24
  25     /**
  26      *
  27      * @param viableCandidates the available candidates from which to choose the new owner
  28      * @return the new owner
  29      */
  30     String newOwner(Collection<String> viableCandidates);
  31 }